Cause and Effect

Relationships

Sarah Girgis

Objective Students identify cause-and-effect relationships between story events.

What is a Cause?An event that makes something Happen.

To find the cause you need to ask yourself “What happened first?”

What is an Effect? The effect is what happens because of something else (the cause).

To find the effect, you need to ask yourself, “What happened Second”

Signal Words..There are signal words that help identify the two parts of a cause and effect relationship

The most common signal words are:If so

Because When Then

Example…Bryan Forgot his reading book, so he was unable to complete his homework.

What happened first?

Bryan forgot his reading book (cause)

What happened second?

Bryan could not completeHis homework (effect)

Click the cause in the following sentence..

Bob was hungry because he skipped lunch.

GREAT JOB!!!

TRY AGAIN

Click the effect in the sentence…

My sister was scared of the mouse, so she yelled for help.

You Got it

It snowed outside, therefore..

A. I don’t feel good

B. I will shovel the driveway

EXACTLY!!

Wrong, Try Again

When the temperature rises deep under the Earth’s crust, it becomes hot enough to melt rock and turn it into magma. Sometimes this melted rock blasts through the Earth’s surface, which causes rock, ash, and deadly gases to fly into the air. The lava that flows out of the volcano can knock down trees and destroy houses and even whole towns. Although volcanoes can cause lots of destruction, the volcano’s eruption also creates new land. Many times this new land forms an island in the ocean. You might even live on land created by a volcano!

UNIVERSAL ACCESS ESL students can be given easier sentences to find cause and effect.ESL students can work with other classmates to help them find cause and effects of sentences.Teacher can use creative techniques such as a matching game using post it notes to correctly match cause and effects in various sentences.